bug#63571: [PATCH 00/14] 'guix refresh -u' updates input fields

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> This is addressed in v2 of this patch series, along with other
> improvements (changes since v1):
>
>   • honors ‘updater-extra-inputs’ and ‘updater-ignored-inputs’ package
>     properties (and similarly for native and propagated inputs);
>
>   • add those properties to a few packages;
>
>   • ‘cran’ updater keeps inputs alphabetically sorted;
>
>   • ‘gem’ updater now updates inputs as well.
>
> Surely this will reveal limitations of updaters/importers but I’d like
> to see it as an opportunity to improve them; more importantly, we have
> to reduce the maintenance cost of all these imported packages, and this
> is a step in that direction.
>
> If there are no objections, I’d like to apply this series within a few
> days.

Pushed as 9f7cd1fcaf99c8e8430d0b29335220701664dc54!

Let me know how it works for you!

Ludo’.